{"id":9122,"date":"2012-07-24T11:56:24","date_gmt":"2012-07-24T10:56:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/?p=9122"},"modified":"2012-07-24T11:56:24","modified_gmt":"2012-07-24T10:56:24","slug":"brixton-ranks-low-on-london-life-expectancy-rates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/brixton-ranks-low-on-london-life-expectancy-rates\/","title":{"rendered":"Brixton ranks low on London life expectancy rates"},"content":{"rendered":"

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This\u00a0intriguing\u00a0map uses a novel way to\u00a0highlight London\u2019s social inequalities, demonstrating how where you live can have a dramatic impact on your life\u00a0expectancy\u00a0rates.<\/p>\n

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The data is projected over a tube \u00a0map, and also includes\u00a0the rank of each London ward on the spectrum of\u00a0Income Deprivation Affecting Children Index<\/a><\/p>\n

Looking at the map<\/a>, you can see that someone living in leafy Clapham can\u00a0expect\u00a0to live two years longer than someone in nearby Brixton.<\/p>\n

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For Brixtonites (and those in nearby Stockwell), expectancy\u00a0is pegged at just 78 years – close to the lowest age found in the survey.<\/p>\n

Move into Lancaster Gate and Marble Arch however, and life expectancy soars to 91 years – compare that to the mere 75 years found in the most deprived parts of East London.<\/p>\n

Here’s how the\u00a0developers<\/a>\u00a0describe\u00a0their map and some of their findings:<\/p>\n

The map shows two key statistics: 1) the life expectancy at birth<\/a> of those living around each London Underground, London Overground and Docklands Light Railway (DLR) station and 2) the rank of each London ward on the spectrum of Income Deprivation Affecting Children Index<\/a> (IDACI).<\/p>\n

The inclusion of the IDACI rank highlights the linkage between deprivation and life expectancy, which is especially poignant in this context as it demonstrates that, without significant social change (obviously,\u00a0if the social composition of London changes radically then the life expectancies at each station will change with it), the fates of many children living in the poorest parts of London are seemingly already sealed.<\/p>\n

Whilst the average life expectancy predictions show that today\u2019s children are expected to live longer, the range is startling. For the stations mapped, it is over 20 years\u00a0with those around Star Lane (on the DLR) predicted to live, on average, for 75.3 years in contrast to 96.38 years for those around Oxford Circus.<\/p>\n

The smaller disparities are no less striking. For example, between Lancaster Gate and Mile End (20 minutes on the Central line) life expectancy decreases by 12 years and crossing the Thames between Pimlico and Vauxhall sees life expectancy drop by 6 years. The stations serving the Olympic Park fair badly and contrast with the Olympic volleyball venue at Earl\u2019s Court whose spectators will be passing through areas with far higher life expectancies and lower child poverty<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Read more about this fascinating project here: Lives on the Line: Life Expectancy and Child Poverty as a Tube Map<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This\u00a0intriguing\u00a0map uses a novel way to\u00a0highlight London\u2019s social inequalities, demonstrating how where you live can have a dramatic impact on your life\u00a0expectancy\u00a0rates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9123,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3,194,193],"tags":[1191,10,386],"class_list":["post-9122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-brixton","category-london-features","category-places","tag-brixton","tag-london","tag-map"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/brixton-life-expectancy-birth-rates.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pQI7P-2n8","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9122","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9122"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9122\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9127,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9122\/revisions\/9127"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9123"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}